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npackon Diff-pdf: tool to visually compare two PDFs

https://onlinetextcompare.com/pdf lets you compare text between two pdf files locally within the browser

npackon HCU: Is Google Prioritizing Profit over Content Quality?

Several small publishers were severely hit after the latest Google SEO "Helpful Content Update." Google now prioritizes Reddit, Medium, Quora, and Pinterest sites over smaller sites. Pushing businesses to spend on ads for discoverability

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

Definitely impressive on what you put together in a short time.

Long term, we would want to build robust "Import" wizard for every dbms

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

OP Here. I can understand. I would be skeptical too

I have been using this tool just for myself for the last few months. The project is intentionally built for longevity (striving to keep the project for decades, if there are serious users). The costs to run are negligible, and I haven't thought much about monetizing. At this point, evaluating if there is enough interest in the tool

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

QBD is a great tool and has been an inspiration (even though we compete)

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

Every database has its own flavor of SQL syntax for DDLs. So, we settled on a minimal common syntax.

We will have "import" functionality available soon. You should be able to convert database specific DDLs into diagram language.

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

The table will expand automatically to fit its contents. So wider columns like order_module_order_num should work just fine

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

1. Every database has its own flavor of SQL syntax. So we need to settle on a minimal syntax that can export to any database. (BigQuery, Snowflake, MySQL etc..)

2. I tested it out. When i attempt to change CustomerID it does show a error toast in the bottom saying FK reference is invalid. Not sure, why its not showing up for you. Which browser are you using ?

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

"Export to DDL" feature is coming up next !

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

dbdiagram is definitely an useful utility. Some of the differentiators would be: 1. Simpler Syntax 2. Fully Local processing (This tool works offline, once you load the original web page) 3. Light weight & fast (the entire project is 20kb in size)

npackon Show HN: Private, text to entity-relationship diagram tool

Agree, We could do some improvements to Auto-Layout. Our tool does remember your layout adjustments